Huntsville gazette., 1887-05-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


from New York to San Francisco via Cape
Horn, was to be started on the 10th. A
large amount Of money has been wagered
on the race.
The six days go-as-you-please walking
match, which closed at Philadelphia on
the night of the 9TH, was won by Strokel,
with a score of 515 miles. Alberts,
Noremac, Hart and Elson finishing in the
order named.
POLICEMAN MORRIS COLBERT has been
locked up in New York on a charge of
| running lottery agency and policy shop.
DIR. c. c. CARROLL, of Meadville, Pa,
after years of experimenting, has dis
covered method by which aluminium can
be cast, soidered and welded. 1t is an i'm
portant discovery.
SOLDIERS reunions have been appointed
to be held in Southwestern Wisconsin as
follows: Sixth Battery, at Lone Rock.
June % and %; Southwestern Veteran
Association at Schulls burg, June and 2;
Twenty-tifth regiment infantry, at Sparta,
June and g.
The alarming statement is made that
the moon is approaching the earth at the
rate of nine feet per century. At that
rate the final collapse will not come for
few years yet
THE work under contracts on the mon
itors Terror and Amphitrlte is practically
finished, and the Navy Department is con-
sidering the nature of the tests that must
be successfully undergone before the YES
sells are accepted by the Government.
JOHN NJ PLEASANT chief of the Tusca-
rora Indians, located upon the reserva-
tion in the town of Lewiston, N. Y, died
on the 7th, aged seventy-seven years. He
| was chosen chief Of the tribe when only
| seventeen years old, and has always been
| noted for his excellent judgment in the
| administration of the affairs of the tribe.
| IT now seems that Captain Mackay
| Lomasney was not killed while trying to
| blow up London bridge a few years ago,
as was announced at the time. He is at
present actively engaged in preparing the
explosions that the meliniters have on
| their cards to emphasize the Queens
| jubilee.
| THE lumber yard of Abraham Steers, in
the Harlem district, New York, was
| burned on the night of the 7th, and stock
valued at about $1,000 0was destroyed; in
surance, $4,000
| E. OLIVER. ef Beardsley, ILL.,, jumped
| from a west-bound passenger train on the
| Burlington road from Kansas City to
| Denver on the 7th, at Iowa Point, and was
drowned IN the Missouri.
The fire at Nagy-Karoly, Austro- Hun
| gary, was caused by terrible storm of
| of wind, which carried sparks to a distant
| woodward and set fire to it. Altogether
| four hundred houses we're destroyed, and
| 5000 people, deprived of homes, are camp
ing in the open air.
ISAAC MACE, of Chelsea, Ind, has writ
ten to the Governor that he has made i'm
portant discoveries of valuable minerals
in jefferson County. He incloses to the
Governor small nugget of gold ore,
which he claims he found in his prospect
ing. The ore was su ubmitted to a jeweler,
and was found to contain gold.
IT is current rumor in Washington that
England intends to outdo the United
States in the way of hospitality toward
the Queen of Hawaii in order to counter
act the friendly feeling produced in the
mind of the Queen toward the United
States Government by the courtesies
shown her.
SARA BERNHARDT got mad at Omaha
and succeeded in getting herself hissed.
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER. a leading live
stock man of New Mexico, was assassin
ated near Socorro, on the 7th.
ALL the brewers of San Francisco have
discharged their union men. About two
THE butler of one Of the foreign minis
ters at Washin gton recently took run
over TO Baltimore, registered as the min
lister himself accepted dinners and other
social courtesies from some first fami-
lies,' and now that his identity is re-
vealed 'shorrld' sensation is in full
bloom.
A HOT sirocco blew the whole of last
week throughout Hungary, parching
vegetation and rendering it inflammable.
At Toroczko three hundred houses were
burned and four lives wsre lost The con-
fagration lasted two days. At Rusk-
burg church and thirty seven
houses were destroyed. Many
houses were burned at the village OF
Meregyo. At Eperics all the churches
and pu blic buildings were destroyed and
the cemetery was devastated 1t is esti-
mated that the total losses will exceed
50, 800, 600. All the Hungarian and many
Austrian insurance houses are involved.
AT Afford, Ind, on the 9th, Sherman
Conrad was fatally stabbed by Washing
ton Carlyle.
SENATOR MCPHERSON is a strong be-
lever in Cleveland for President another
term.
AUSTRIA is contemplating subsidzing
large uTt-dFmS ldClOly Col pol oioh IL
Hungary.
The Hawaiian royal party were the
guests of the city of Boston on the 9Sh at
breakfast.
SENATOR ALDRICI, of Rhode Island, has
been ordered to Europe by his physician
for the benefit of his health, and will soon
sail.
UNITED STATES COUNsUL-GENERAL
WALKER, at Paris, is in Washington on
leave Of absence, and it is understo TODD
that he does not expect to return to his
post.
THE British House of Commons resumed
debate on the Irish Crimes Amendment
bill on the 9th.
GENERAL RossER has had another fling
at General Sheridan, and the latter ap-
peals to the official record.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, the Irish agitator, ar
rived at New York on the 9.h. He was ac-
corded a cordial reception.
THE Panhandle railroad robbery cases
were taken up in the Criminal Court at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9Th, Judge Ewing
presiding.
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